Shimmering hypocrisy of Campbell, crusader for criminals
When naomi Campbell campaigns it is usually for Burberry or Versace or nars or Prada. And boy, is she good at it. naomi has been at the top of the supermodel game for over 30 years, as dazzling now as she was when she first appeared on the cover of elle, one month before her 16th birthday. She is to be admired for many things, but perhaps not for her campaigning to thwart the home Office and stop 57 convicted Jamaican offenders from being booted out of the UK and deported back to their homeland.
naomi as a crusader for criminal justice? Don’t make me laugh.
not just because she has form herself. The 50-year- old has been convicted of assault on four occasions, including spitting at and assaulting police officers. She has been accused of assault on a total of 11 occasions and was once banned from British Airways for life.
Perhaps deportation is a trigger issue for naomi, for it is a small but gorgeous miracle that she has not been deported back to the UK herself, billed as an undesirable citizen in some foreign part or other.
Yet here she is, one of an oozing fester of luvvies, Left-wing lawyers and Labour politicians who battled to stop Priti Patel from deporting assorted ruffians and bad ’uns back to Jamaica this week.
Their number included murderers, rapists and at least one paedophile, but that didn’t stop the do-gooders. Joining Miss Campbell in the cause were celebrities including Line Of Duty star Thandie newton, Bond actress naomie harris and historian David Olusoga, who recently approved of the removal of the Colston statue in Bristol ‘because he was a slaver and a murderer’.
OPPOSITION MPs wasted no time in comparing the deportation flight with the Windrush scandal, even though the Caribbean migrants who suffered injustice in that regrettable episode were entirely innocent and had committed no crimes.
Yet all involved still signed a letter demanding that none of the 57 varieties of offenders should be removed.
On the seemingly specious grounds that the UK was now their home, such a removal offended their human rights and one of them — i kid you not — had high blood pressure. hope there was no one with an ingrowing toenail on board. Captain, reverse thrust now!
All of the convicted criminals were born in Jamaica and none are UK citizens. Of the original number due to leave the UK on the flight, 23 submitted last-minute appeals, 21 were taken off the passenger list due to previous appeals and only 13 were on board when the flight departed.
Addressing the claim that this country was now their home, the home Secretary argued that it was a privilege and not a right to live in this country. One that they had clearly forfeited by committing serious crimes. Of course, deportation flights repatriating criminals to their home countries from the UK are nothing new — and what right-minded citizen could possibly argue against them?
it seems it is only when the offenders happen to be black that it becomes a huge issue, freighted with accusations of racism.
These campaigners truffle f or prejudice and intolerance where there is none, and forget about the victims of these crimes as they glorify their assailants in the process.
For them, crime seems to be an abstract concept; something hopefully carried out by, let’s say, a far-Right-wing extremist with a hitler moustache and a Union Jack tattoo on his forehead. Something perpetrated by evil white men shouting ‘kill all the badgers’ as they help themselves to the family loot.
naomi Campbell is not a bad person, but to me she absolutely encompasses the shimmering hypocrisy of all this.
not only has she been convicted of assault, she was the victim of an attempted robbery in Paris eight years ago. During the nasty incident, a man opened her car door and said: ‘naomi Campbell, we’re going to kill you.’ in a television interview later, she said: ‘You decide in a very split moment — i don’t know if i’d ever do this again in hindsight — am i going to let this guy take my bag with all my passports, or am i going to fight for it?
‘And my decision was, i am not letting my bag go.’
HARD to imagine her battling for the liberty and rights of those particular thieves, isn’t it? Years ago i spent a day with naomi, accompanying her as she did a round of interviews to promote her (short-lived) singing career.
The schedule was thrown i nto disarray when she discovered she had lost an emerald earring — and went back to her hotel to spend hours looking for it.
All of this proves absolutely nothing, except that justice is an elastic concept for someone like naomi Campbell. And also that she really, really loves her jewels. no clemency for any naughty thieves who might try to steal those precious babies, no matter who or what they might be.